PERCEPTION OF ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE AND DYSFUNCTIONAL WORKPLACE BEHAVIOUR AMONGST EMPLOYEES OF OREDO LOCALGOVERNMENT COUNCIL, BENIN CITY, EDO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Organizational injustice is prevalent in Nigerian organizations and several factors have been attributed to the dysfunctional behaviour of employees. The objective of this study is to determine the extent of significant relationship between procedural and interpersonal justice, and dysfunctional working behaviour of employees in Oredo Local Government Council, Edo State, Nigeria. The study employed survey research design, using copies of questionnaire to elicit information form respondents. Being a cross-sectional study, a sample size of 270 employees were randomly selected. Data analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 to perform descriptive and inferential statistics. Result from the regression estimation technique revealed that there exists a significant relationship between procedural and interpersonal justice and dysfunctional work behaviour of employees with a low p-value, which was less than 0.05. The study further showed that there exist an uneven and unfair procedures in allocation of rewards and uneven sharing of rewards and or outcomes; and that counter-productive behaviour is as a result of perceived unfairness and that superiors are not honest with the information given to their subordinates with regards to procedures of sharing rewards/outcomes.